Women shout during a demonstration against the French president's plan to legalize gay marriage. Many thousands streamed into Paris by bus, car and specially reserved high-speed train.

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Italian police officers stop members of a group of four women who went topless to protest the Vatican's opposition to gay marriage, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday. Police quickly took the women away, and the pope appeared not to have been disturbed as he delivered his traditional prayer from his studio window overlooking the piazza. On their bare backs, the women had painted slogans "In Gay We Trust," and "Shut Up.

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People march during a protest rally in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday. Thousands of people are gathering in central Moscow to protest against Russia's new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children. They carry posters of President Vladimir Putin and members of Russia's parliament who overwhelmingly voted for the law last month. The posters have the word "Shame" written in red over the faces and proclaim that Sunday's demonstration is a "March Against the Scum" who enacted the law.

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Members of the Colfax, Wis. Fire Department examine charred remains Sunday of St. John's Lutheran Church in the Town of Grant, Dunn County, Wis. A fire late Saturday, Jan. 12 destroyed the nearly 100-year-old rural church located about 10 miles north of Colfax.

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Bahraini anti-government protesters burn tires during clashes with riot police, unseen, in Malkiya village, Bahrain, Sunday. Clashes broke out after the a funeral of Habib Ibrahim, 88, a man whose family and opposition rights activists allege died from tear gas fired by police during earlier clashes.

Two dead bodies lie on a street in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday. The revolution against the Syrian regime started in March 2011 with peaceful protests but morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 60,000 people, according to a recent United Nations estimate.

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Yemeni supporters of the Southern Separatist Movement hold former South Yemen flags during a rally in Aden, Yemen, on Sunday. The rally commemorates the anniversary of a civil war that broke out in 1986 between South Yemen and North Yemen.

Aurore Martin, a former French leader of Batasuna, the outlawed Basque party in Spain, speaks during a press conference in Bayonne, southwestern France on Tuesday. The Basque nationalist group Batasuna announced that it is dissolving after 11 years. A Spanish court in December set bail terms for Martin who was extradited and charged with belonging to a terrorist organization as one of its leaders in a rare case where France extradited a citizen to be tried elsewhere.

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Malaysian protesters listen to their leader's speech during the People's Uprising Rally at Merdeka Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Saturday. More than 45,000 Malaysians have joined the massive opposition rally in a show of force ahead of general elections due in months.

This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels walk past of dead Syrian soldiers loyal to Syrian president Bashar Assad, at Taftanaz air base that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria, on Friday. Islamic militants seeking to topple President Bashar Assad took full control of a strategic northwestern air base Friday in a significant blow to government forces, seizing helicopters, tanks and multiple rocket launchers, activists said.

Participants play the electric guitars in an attempt to create a Guinness record for the largest electric guitar ensemble, in Dimapur, in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland on Saturday. With a total of 368 participants, the group created a new Guinness record, according to officials.

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People participate in "Snow Day," a Guinness World Record-breaking snowball fight at the Seattle Center on Saturday. 5,834 people that passed through the gates were certified by Guinness World Records as participating in the projectile battle. Many more jumped the fences, adding to the total. The snow was trucked in from the Cascade mountains for the event.

An undated photo of Chilean artist Jorge Selaron decorates a tile that is part of a wall on a public staircase he decorated and titled the "Selaron Stairway" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday. Selaron, an eccentric Chilean artist and longtime Rio resident who created a massive, colorful tile stairway in the bohemian Lapa district that's popular with tourists, was found dead on the stairway on Thursday. Authorities said he may have taken his own life by setting himself on fire on the very steps of his masterpiece.

Two masked men keep a lookout on the rooftop an old Indian museum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. Police in riot gear on Saturday surrounded the site in preparation for the eviction of an indigenous settlement of men and women living on the grounds of the old museum . The settlement is next to the Maracana stadium, pictured left in background, which is being refurbished to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics and the final match of the 2014 World Cup. Authorities say the compound must go as the area around the stadium is also being refurbished, expected to be transformed into a shopping and sports entertainment hub.

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The Holmes family, the Walker siblings six-year-old Caleb, left, four-year-old Esther, second from left, nine-year-old Liam, and eleven-year-old Matilda, right, holding two-year-old Charlotte, prepare to enter the water on Jan. 4 to take refuge with their grandparents under a jetty as a wildfire rages nearby in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. Record temperatures across southern Australia cooled Wednesday reducing the danger from scores of raging wildfires but likely bringing only a brief reprieve from the summer�s extreme heat and fire risk. (AP Photo/The Holms Family, Tim Holmes)

The Holmes family, Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren take refuge under a jetty on Jan. 4 as a wildfire rages nearby in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. Record temperatures across southern Australia cooled Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, reducing the danger from scores of raging wildfires but likely bringing only a brief reprieve from the summer�s extreme heat and fire risk. (AP Photo/Holmes Family, Tim Holmes)

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RE-TRANS FOR HIGHER RESOLUTION - This Tuesday Jan. 8, 2013 photo provided by NASA, taken by Astronaut Chris Hadfield from the International Space Station, shows a view of the wildfire near Burrinjuck Dam in Australia. Look closely and you can see the flames from orbit.

A killer whale surfaces through a small hole in the ice near Inukjuak, in Northern Quebec on Tuesday. Mayor Peter Inukpuk urged the Canadian government Wednesday to send an icebreaker as soon as possible to crack open the ice and help the pod of about a dozen trapped orcas find open water. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans said its ships were too far away to reach the orcas in time. However, official later in the week reported the orcas may have swam free of the ice. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Marina Lacasse)

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A killer whale surfaces through a small hole in the ice near Inukjuak,
in Northern Quebec on Tuesday. Mayor Peter Inukpuk urged the Canadian
government Wednesday to send an icebreaker as soon as possible to crack
open the ice and help the pod of about a dozen trapped orcas find open
water. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans said its ships were too
far away to reach the orcas in time. However, official later in the week
reported the orcas may have swam free of the ice. (AP Photo/The
Canadian Press, Marina Lacasse)

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Basque pro-independence supporters march calling for an amnesty that would allow ETA prisoners to serve out the remainder of their sentences in this northern region rather than in jails further afield, during a rally in Bilbao northern Spain, on Saturday. Spain has for more than two decades dispersed ETA prisoners under an amendment to the country's 1975 anti-terrorism law. There are an estimated 700 ETA prisoners held in jails dotted around Spain and France and only around two dozen believed to be in Basque region goals.

A doll covered with mud lies on the floor after a flood hit the village of Bat Hefer, central Israel, on Wednesday. About 200 homes were flooded and tens of cars were damaged by the flood.

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A video posted on Islamic militant websites Wednesday show a man identified as French security agent Denis Allex pleading for his release from the Somali militant group al-Shabaab, who have been holding him for nearly a year. A French commando raid in Somalia to free a captive intelligence agent ended in the deaths of 17 Islamists and a French soldier. France said the hostage also died in the failed rescue, but the man's captors denied he had been killed and claimed Saturday to have seized a second soldier.

Gene Patterson, former chairman and chief executive of the Times Publishing Company and its affiliates, checks his email from his bed in St. Petersburg, Fla, in August. Patterson edited 600,000 words out of the King James Bible shown at right, sitting on top of his finished manuscript. Newspaper editor and columnist Eugene Patterson, who helped fellow Southern whites understand the civil rights movement. He died Saturday at 89. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Cherie Diez)

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Kurds hold photos of Sakine Cansiz, one of the founders of a militant group battling Turkish troops since 1984, as they protest against France outside the French consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday. Cansiz and two other women were "executed" at a Kurdish center in Paris, Thursday. It was not immediately clear who killed the women, who belonged to the PKK, a group that Turkey and its Western allies, including the United States and the European Union, consider a terrorist organization.

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Supporters of Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa light firecrackers to celebrate upon hearing the result of the vote to impeach the country's Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday. Sri Lanka's Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Friday to impeach the chief justice, deepening a standoff between the judiciary and the government, which is controlled by the country's most powerful family.

Lauren and Ryan Baldner, of Waltham, Mass., pose for a wedding photo in May. In a civil action filed this week, Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley claims a wedding videography company scammed dozens of couples, including the Baldners, by never delivering their video footage or refunds. The lawsuit seeks recovery of the victims' wedding footage and about $75,000 in restitution and penalties from a business that operated as SureShot Portraits LLC. Coakley said Thursday she got 84 complaints, including the Baldners.

Soldiers from a Malian army special unit carry their weapons following a training exercise in the Barbe military zone, in Mopti, Mali, in November. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that France, Senegal and Nigeria have responded to an appeal from Mali's President Dioncounda Traore for help to counter an offensive by al-Qaida-linked militants who control the northern half of the country and are heading south. The U.N. chief said that assisting the Malian defense forces push back against the Islamist armed groups is "very important."

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Costa Rican women breast feed their babies during a pro-breastfeeding demonstration at the Plaza Lincoln shopping center in San Jose, Costa Rica, on Saturday. At least 50 mothers gathered in the mall's fast food area and breastfed infants for nearly two hours Saturday, protesting over the shopping center forcing a woman to stop nursing her daughter a week earlier.

People are seen through a smoke from a burnt out slum in Ebute Metta, a neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, on Tuesday. A massive fire ripped through this neighborhood of sawmills and slum housing Tuesday afternoon along the banks of the Lagos Lagoon. Emergency officials could not be reached for comment, though there were no fire trucks present hours after the blaze started.

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Chadian soldiers ride in a truck in a large convoy of other Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize in Damara, 70km north of the capital Bangui, in Central African Republic on Wednesday. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a "red line that the rebels cannot cross" or his forces will attack.

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A worker cuts a chain link fence surrounding an apartment complex where Lee Harvey Oswald briefly lived before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as they prepare the the building's demolition Monday in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. A city attorney wrote in a letter to the property's owner that the building will be torn down after testing for asbestos. The letter says the demolition will begin immediately after the testing is completed.

Civilians wearing ski masks or bandanas and carrying small arms, man a checkpoint in Teconoapa, in the Mexican state of Guerrero on Friday. Several hundred civilians have taken up arms in two towns in the southwestern Mexico state and are arresting people suspected of crimes and imposing a curfew. Leaders said they were acting against crime and insecurity. Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre Rivero responded Friday by announcing that security in the region would be bolstered by sending in Mexican soldiers and marines and federal and state police officers.

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the conclusion of their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Friday. The two said most U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan would end
this spring, signaling a quickening troop drawdown that will bring the
decade-long war to a close at the end of 2014.

Semi-naked shoppers get out a bus for the opening of a Spanish fashion store to mark winter sales in Paris on Wednesday. The brand offers free clothes for the first hundred semi-naked customers.

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A Pakistani paramilitary soldier and local residents gather at the site of a bomb blast that targeted paramilitary soldiers in a commercial area in Quetta, Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 40 others, according to police on Thursday. A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 115 people on Thursday in one of the deadliest days in the country in recent years.

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Pakistani police officers and local residents gather at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan on Thursday. A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed scores of people in southwest Pakistan, officials said.

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Workers clean up debris from a fallen piece of the old SR 16 at South Tacoma Way late Friday afternoon. A Washington state Transportation Department spokeswoman says a section of a concrete pillar fell during demolition of the old highway overpass, punching a hole in a water line.

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A WestJet Boeing 737-700 aircraft ended up in the mud off an apron next to the Kelowna International Airport terminal Monday. Two large tandem tow trucks attached cables to its rear wheels and slowly pulled it back onto the pavement. The 138 passengers and six crew disembarked with passengers booked on other flights or given hotel vouchers.

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Naval Forces Southern Luzon brought ashore a suspected American drone off Masbate Island in Central Philippines on Sunday. Philippine Navy officer Capt. Jason Rommel Galang said the 10-foot orange BQM-74e drone marked "Navy" was found by a Filipino diver and fishermen off Ticao island in the island province of Masbate and has been turned over to local navy authorities. It's not clear why the drone ended up off Masbate, according to Galang. (AP Photo/Philippine Navy Southern Luzon)

Orlando Terranova of Argentina and co-driver Paulo Fiuza of Portugal drive their BMW, top, as medics evacuate Leonardo Martinez of Bolivia after crashing with his quad in the 3nd stage of the 2013 Dakar Rally from Pisco to Nazca, Peru, on Monday. The race finishes in Santiago, Chile, on Jan. 20.

Investigators stand near the wreckage of a U.S.-owned cargo helicopter in Pucallpa, Peru, on Monday. Five U.S. citizens are among seven people killed in the crash in the Peruvian jungle. The heavy-lift, twin-rotor Chinook BH-234 chopper, owned by Columbia Helicopters in the Portland suburb of Aurora, Oregon, crashed Monday shortly after taking off from the provincial capital of Pucallpa bound for Tarapoto.

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This aerial photo shows a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter sling a trailer aboard the Shell floating drill rig in Kodiak Island, Alaska's Kiliuda Bay on Monday afternoon as salvage teams conduct an in-depth assessment of its seaworthiness. The Kulluk, which ran aground a week ago on Sitkalidak Island near Kodiak, was taken to Kiliuda Bay for repairs and a survey.

Onlookers watch as Newberry Fire Department firefighters put out a fire at St. Paul Lutheran Church on Hwy 773 on Thursday in Newberry, S.C. The fire started at about 6:30 a.m. and the Newberry County Sheriff's Office reported no injuries in the blaze.

Farm workers look out for Police in the rain as they stand at their house during a demonstration due to low wages in the town of Grabouw, South Africa, on Wednesday. Striking farm workers on Wednesday set up barricades and threw stones at motorists and police in a South African province whose vineyards are vital to the wine industry, prompting riot officers to close roads and arrest at least 50 demonstrators, South African media reported.

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A State Police diver climbs into Budd Lake during a recovery search for two teenagers in Mount Olive, N.J on Tuesday. Police received reports of screams for help coming from the lake around 6:20 p.m. Monday. Acting Morris County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp said two residents went out on a boat, but failed to find anyone. Rescuers broke through more than 100 feet of ice and a state police helicopter illuminated the scene before the search was called off Monday night. (AP Photo/The Daily Record, Bob Karp)

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A second coroner's inquest confirmed Tuesday that Amy Winehouse, shown here in 2007, died of accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after a period of abstinence. The second inquest was held after the original coroner was found to lack the proper qualifications for the job.

This image courtesy KTTV-TV shows a car at the bottom of a ravine in the Angeles National Forest outside of Los Angeles on Wednesday. The vehicle is registered to a missing 19-year-old woman from Santa Clarita. A body was found near the car but has yet to be identified.

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Pallbearers carry the small coffin holding six-year-old Tahlia Johnson on her way to her burial Friday in Dallas. According to Dallas health officials, Thalia's death on Tuesday was caused by the flu. State health officials say cases have been reported in more than half of Texas, and the intensity of flu-like symptoms is high.

The cruise ship Costa Concordia, leaning on its side, is framed by a church bell tower in the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, on Friday. As if the nightmares, flashbacks and anxiety weren't enough, passengers who survived the terrifying grounding and capsizing of the Costa Concordia off Tuscany have come in for a rude shock as they mark the first anniversary of the disaster on Sunday. Ship owner Costa Crociere SpA, the Italian unit of Miami-based Carnival Corp., sent several passengers a letter telling them they weren't welcome at the official anniversary ceremonies on the island of Giglio where the hulking ship still rests. Costa says the day is focused on the families of the 32 people who died Jan. 13, 2012, not the 4,200 passengers and crew who survived.

Illinois House Minority Leader Tom Cross, R-Oswego, left, welcomes Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, right, to the House floor during session at the Illinois State Capitol on Tuesday in Springfield Ill. The long-awaited plan to address Illinois' $96 billion pension problem cleared an early hurdle Monday, as the Illinois House committee approved a proposal that freezes cost-of-living increases and calls for higher employee contributions.

Officials investigate at the scene of a train derailment near Dayton, Idaho, on Wednesday. A dump truck collided with a freight train at a foggy crossing in southeastern Idaho, killing the truck's driver.

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Security officers walk away as a man mourns next to the bodies of his wife and a daughter who were gunned down outside their house as they attempted to escape when suspected Orma raiders attacked their Kibusu as suspected Orma raiders attacked their village Kibusu in Kenya on Thursday. The raiders set more than twenty houses on fire and killed at least ten people as the Tana River County ethnic clashes erupted yet again.

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A bus carrying Lebanese army soldiers make its way through a flooded road, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday. Lebanon has been hit with a snow storm that has blocked roads in the mountains and brought heavy rain showers to the capital Beirut and other coastal areas since Sunday.

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A protester waves a national flag during a demonstration in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday. Iraqi authorities have closed the country's only border crossing with Jordan over security concerns, cutting a key route through a part of the country that has seen anti-government protests. An official in the Anbar province, center of the demonstrations, says the region plans to file a lawsuit over the closure.

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Police fan out as they search for stray dogs in a park on the hilltop borough of Iztapalapa in southeast Mexico City on Tuesday. The fatal mauling of four people by feral dogs in a Mexico City park set off debate Tuesday about the city's love/hate relationship with its dog population, and the guilt or innocence of 25 dogs trapped near the scene of the nightmarish killings.

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The owner of the MV Kearsarge, Peter Fenton, examines his sinking dinner cruise ship in Sunapee Harbor on Friday in Sunapee, N.H. Authorities said the ship started to go under at about 7:45 p.m. Thursday, and part of the lower deck at the back of the boat was under water Friday morning. It was not immediately known what caused the problem. The MV Kearsarge has been taking visitors around Lake Sunapee from May through October for over 30 years.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson speaks during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday. People with knowledge of the situation said that investor Chris Hansen has contacted the Maloof family about buying the Sacramento Kings basketball team, setting up the possibility of the NBA's return to Seattle. Rumors swirled all week with nothing definite being reported.

Syrians inspect the destruction of buildings after heavy shelling on Jan. 5 by the Syrian Air Force in apparent retaliation for rebels attacks on the nearby Taftanaz military airbase in the village of Binnish, Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a rare speech Sunday, outlined his own vision for ending the country's conflict with a plan that would keep him in power. He also dismissed any chance of dialogue with the armed opposition and called on Syrians to fight what he called "murderous criminals."

A Syrian rebel tank is hidden among the trees on the front line of the ongoing battle for the military airport in Taftanaz, Syria, on Jan. 6. Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a rare speech last Sunday, outlined his own vision for ending the country's conflict with a plan that would keep him in power. He also dismissed any chance of dialogue with the armed opposition and called on Syrians to fight what he called "murderous criminals."

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In this photo taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, rebel fighters battle on Thursday for control of the military airport in Taftanaz, Idlib province, northern Syria. Syrian rebels and Islamic militants seeking to topple President Bashar Assad took full control of the Taftanaz air base on Friday in a significant blow to government forces, seizing helicopters, tanks and multiple rocket launchers, activists said.

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Unified firefighter Chris Thurman points out a meeting point to Christi Green and other volunteers before they leave to help search for 13-year-old Brooklyn Gittins a in Herriman, Utah, on Thursday. Several hundred volunteers dressed for the cold showed up at a Mormon meetinghouse Thursday to help search for a 13-year-old Utah girl who went missing without her shoes, coat or cellphone. Police say the girls was found unharmed and they were looking for her possible captors. (AP Photo/Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)

Jodi Arias appears for her trial in Maricopa County Superior court Wednesday in Phoenix. Arias is charged with murder in the death of her boyfriend, and prosecution is seeking the death penalty. The prosecution presented testimony Thursday aimed at proving Jodi Arias
is a pathological liar who plotted the murder of her ex-boyfriend,
30-year-old Travis Alexander.

An overturned school bus rests on a fence after colliding with a commuter bus, back right on Thursday in Old Bridge, N.J. The New York City-bound commuter bus and the mini school bus crashed on a state highway in New Jersey, injuring at least 17 people, two critically. School officials said no students were on the Old Bridge school bus, which landed on its side along Route 9.

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Morgan Alldredge, 16, poses for a portrait outside of Taft Union High School in Taft, Calif., on Friday. Allredge had just finished her oceanography test when a classmate she knows well suddenly walked in the open door to her science class with a shotgun. "He didn't say anything. He just shot right away," said the 16-year-old junior who was sitting by the doorway as the terrifying events unfolded Thursday morning at Taft Union High School, about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

This image provided by the Taft Midway Driller/Doug Keeler shows paramedics transporting a student wounded during a shooting Thursday at San Joaquin Valley high school in Taft, Calif. Authorities said a student was shot and wounded and another student was taken into custody.

Rescuers work at the mud-inundated debris after a landslide hit Zhaojiagou in Zhenxiong County, southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday. A landslide swept through the village in the steep, snow-dusted mountains of southern China on Friday, killing at least 32 people, the local government said. (AP Photo/Xinhua Zhang Guangyu)

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Bags of charcoal are placed in the Zhuozhang river on Jan. 6 to absorb aniline after a chemical plant leaked about 9 tons of it into the river in northern China's Shanxi province. A Chinese city government has apologized for taking five days to report the chemical leak that has affected another city's drinking water supply.

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A firefighting helicopter drops water on a wildfire in a forest region of Cota, near Bogota, Colombia, on Friday. More than 34 acres of pine and eucalyptus trees on the outskirts of Bogota were destroyed by wildfires believed to have been sparked by a heat wave, authorities said.

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A Hillsborough County Sheriff's Deputy greet parents and children at Robinson Elementary School in Plant City, Fla., early Monday. Both Tampa Police and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office will keep a police presence in elementary schools in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Skip O'Rourke)

In this frame grab made Wednesday from APTN video provided by Yekaterina Achkasova, as her husband Denis Burakov and another man are seen inside a large plastic ball called a zorb, on Thursday as they roll down a hill beore tragedy struck at the winter sports venue at Dombai in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia. What was supposed to be a thrilling ride down a ski slope inside a giant inflatable ball has ended in tragedy when the zorb veered off course and sailed over a cliff, killing Denis Burakov and leaving the other man badly injured.

A mangled crane lies at the construction site in the Queens borough of New York where it collapsed, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, behind a big neon "Pepsi Cola" sign, a local landmark. The Fire Department of New York says the 200-foot crane collapsed onto a building under construction, injuring seven people, three of them seriously.

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In this Jan. 6 photo provided by Captain Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari, a pod of Dolphins swims off the coast of Dana Point, Calif. Captain Dave Anderson said hundreds of dolphins were seen churning up the waters off the California coast about 60 miles south of Los Angeles.

Pedestrians pass the arch in Washington Square park Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in New York. A man accused of keeping bomb-making materials in his Greenwich Village apartment told acquaintances that he planned to blow up the Washington Square park arch police said Thursday.

In this photo released by the Alameda County Sheriffs office, an alligator named "Mr. Teeth" is seen after it was discovered in a home in Castro Valley, Calif., on Wednesday. Authorities say the alligator, apparently used to protect a stash of marijuana inside the home, has been taken to a zoo. When deputies entered Assif Mayar's home on Wednesday for a probation check, they found 34 pounds of marijuana and the five-foot alligator in a tank in the bedroom.

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In this 2006, file photo, Iraqi army soldiers stand guard at the Abu Ghraib prison, after taking over from U.S. soldiers, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to engage in torture at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 million to 71 former inmates held there and at other U.S.-run detention facilities between 2003 and 2007. The settlement in the case involving Engility Holdings Inc. of Chantilly, Va., marks the first successful effort by lawyers for former prisoners at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers to collect money from a U.S. defense contractor in lawsuits alleging torture. Another contractor, CACI, is expected to go to trial over similar allegations this summer.

Bahraini anti-government protesters clashes with riot police in Malkiya village, Bahrain, on Monday. Bahrain's highest court has upheld jail sentences against 20 opposition figures convicted of plotting to overthrow the Western-allied government, including eight prominent activists facing life in prison and is almost certain to bring strong criticism from rights groups and touch off more street protests in the violence-wracked Gulf kingdom.

Baby and Nepal, two elephants suffering from tuberculosis, stand in their enclosure at the Parc de la Tete d'Or Zoo in Lyon, central France, Monday Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile unless France halts the scheduled euthanasia of the two sick elephants. The 1960s screen diva says authorities have ignored her "numerous proposals" to save Baby and Nepal, a pair of 42-year-old elephants dying of tuberculosis at a Lyon zoo.

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A hedgehog sleeps at the SPCA in Largo, Fla., on Monday. The exotic critter is one of 299 animals seized from an Oldsmar home that are being cared for at the SPCA after the two residents were arrested Sunday on charges of animal cruelty and child abuse. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Jim Damaske)

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People demonstrate during a welcoming ceremony to celebrate the return of the ARA Libertad at Mar del Plata port, Argentina, on Wednesday. The Argentine naval ship detained for more than two months in Ghana because of a financial dispute returned home to a triumphant welcome. Fernandez has called the Libertad a symbol of Argentina's sovereignty and has hailed its return as a victory for the country.

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In this image provided by the Coast Guard, damage is seen to the tanker Overseas Reymar following a collision with tower six of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, on Monday. The empty oil tanker ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday, but there were no reports of leaking oil and the bridge remained open to traffic, officials said.

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Riot policemen watch Bangladeshi non-government school teachers who participate in a demonstration in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday. More than several hundred teachers staged a protest to press for the inclusion of their institutions in the Monthly Payment Order. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will declare the nationalization of an estimate of 26,193 non-government primary schools of the country. Once nationalized, the teachers of these schools will get the same salaries and benefits as those in government primary schools, according to local reports.

Roger Mundell Jr., bears cuts on his face at his home in Brookfield, Mass., on Monday after being attacked by a bobcat in his garage Sunday. The cat ran out of the garage and bit Mundell's 15-year-old nephew on the arms and back before it was shot dead.

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New York City firefighters walk the deck of the Seastreak Wall Street ferry in New York on Wednesday. The ferry from Atlantic Highlands, N.J., banged into the mooring as it arrived at South Street in lower Manhattan during morning rush hour, injuring as many as 50 people, at least one critically, officials said.

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Paramedics wheel an injured ferry passenger away after the boat crashed on Wednesday in New York. At least 57 people were injured, two critically, when a commuter ferry struck a dock in New York City's financial district, ripping open a right-side front corner.

An injured passenger from the Seastreak Wall Street ferry is taken to an ambulance, in New York on Wednesday. The ferry from Atlantic Highlands, N.J., banged into the mooring as it arrived at South Street in lower Manhattan during morning rush hour, injuring as many as 50 people, at least one critically, officials said.

All Nippon Airways employees wave at a departing Boeing 787 Dreamliner during the airline's launch of a non-stop flight from San Jose to Tokyo at the San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif. on Friday. San Jose is the eighth U.S. gateway for the Japanese airliner. The five-day a week service will be operated with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The U.S. government stepped in Friday to assure the public that Boeing's new 787 "Dreamliner" is safe to fly, even as it launched a comprehensive review to find out what caused a fire, a fuel leak and other worrisome incidents earlier in the week.